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New Jersey Moves to Further Regulate Telehealth
The bill will enable clinicians to provide care remotely to patients in the state, establish appropriate patient-provider relationship via telehealth, and prevent state health plans and private plans that cover state employees from mandating an in-person visit before telehealth use.

Industry Stakeholders Applaud House Report Language on Patient Matching
Inaccurate patient identification and errors in patient matching can lead to serious medical mistakes and are major barriers to improving the quality and efficiency of care across the continuum. House appropriators highlighted this challenge in report language accompanying the Fiscal 2017 Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill, labelling the "lack of a consistent patient data matching strategy" as one of the "most significant challenges" to safe and secure electronic health information exchange.

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